Word: polio
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...taken from Siegfried Sassoon: "Does it matter? -losing your legs? .../ For people will always be kind,/ And you need not show that you mind/ When the others come in after hunting/ To gobble their muffins and eggs." The significance is that Casey, like Sheed himself, was crippled by polio as a boy. It seems to be this affliction that focuses his energy on politics, or, as Sam Perkins eventually sees it, on a compulsion to see healthy people brought to their knees. The novel's main concern, however, is the cloudy question of whether Casey is a very good...
Immunology has already led to the control of many serious illnesses. Immunological research resulted in the development of vaccines against polio, once a major crippler of children, and rubella, or German measles, which can cause serious birth defects in the children of women who contract it while pregnant. It has led to a broader understanding of allergies and an effective method of preventing erythroblastosis fetalis, a blood condition that can prove fatal to infants shortly after birth...
There is no question that the President must save money. But by cutting back basic research in so many key areas, is he sacrificing some unexpected future achievement of untold economic or social importance-a discovery comparable, say, to the transistor or the polio vaccine? Many scientists are certain he is. Harvard's George Kistiakowsky, who was one of Eisenhower's science advisers, calls the Nixon policy, especially the reduction in fellowships, "incredibly shortsighted." By stressing short-term, politically motivated payoffs over the broader quest for knowledge, he warns, Nixon is dangerously "using up our intellectual capital...
...business failure came during the most discouraging period in Fuller's life. It included poverty and the death of Alexandra, his three-year-old daughter, who died of spinal meningitis and polio. The child's death, said the grieving father, was "design-preventable." Always accenting the positive, he even turned from thoughts of suicide at 32 on the assumption that he was the custodian of one of the universe's vital resources...
Gardner credited the success of the North Vietnamese to their emphasis on preventive medicine. He said that the preventive care has helped in the disappearance of cholera, smallpox and polio which plague South Vietnam...